| comp., MS |
post (A message that appears in a newsgroup, public folder, or other forum accessible by a number of individuals); article (A text-based piece of content in the knowledge base); commodity (Interchangeable products with no physical differentiation that are supplied by multiple vendors); POST (A set of routines stored in read-only memory (ROM) that tests various system components such as RAM, the disk drives, and the keyboard, to see if they are properly connected and operating. If problems are found, these routines alert the user with a series of beeps or a message, often accompanied by a diagnostic numeric value. If the POST is successful, it passes control to the bootstrap loader) |
